The following theses have been submitted to the Faculty of Science Graduate Office and are available for review by any member of the University during the display period only. The display period is the time between the posting of the thesis and 5 business days prior to the examination date. Thesis defences at the University of Waterloo are also open to the campus community.
Winter 2025 PhD defenses
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 9:00:00 AM
PhD Candidate: Michelle MCKNIGHT
Title: Microbial ecology of nitrification in engineered water treatment systems
Supervisor: Josh Neufeld
Department: Biology
Location/Method: B1 266 and Remote via MS TEAMS
Friday, February 7, 2025 at 1:00:00 PM
PhD Candidate: Muzi LI
Title: A Multi-Phase Analysis of Gas Dynamics and Perturbations in the Galaxy Cluster Cores
Supervisor: Brian McNamara
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Location/Method: PHY 352 and Remote via MS TEAMS
Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 10:00:00 AM
PhD Candidate: Jin WANG
Title: Harnessing Exosomes from Human Dermal Fibroblasts and Pirfenidone-exosomes as Innovative Strategies for Scarless Tissue Repair in Wound Healing
Supervisor: Emmanuel Ho
Department: School of Pharmacy
Location/Method: Remote via MS TEAMS
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 1:00:00 PM
PhD Candidate: Karsten RINAS
Title: Comparative Effect of Herceptin and Its Biosimilar: Transcriptomic and Proteomic Insights from HER2-Positive Cancer Cell Lines
Supervisor: Brendan McConkey
Department: Biology
Location/Method: B1 266 and Remote via MS TEAMS
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 8:30:00 AM
PhD Candidate: Piyush GARG
Title: Development of a biodegradable contact lens system for ocular drug delivery
Supervisor: Lyndon Jones and Chau-Minh Phan
Department: School of Optometry and Vision Science
Location/Method: Remote via MS TEAMS
Winter 2025 MSc defences
Monday, January 6, 2025 at 11:00:00 AM
MSc Candidate: Parisa AHMADI
Title: Comparing different delivery systems in site-specific genome editing in 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴
Supervisor: Valerie Ward
Department: Biology
Location/Method: Remote via MS TEAMS
Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 8:30:00 AM
MSc Candidate: Kian DREW
Title: Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change in the Pevensey Levels: Stratigraphic and Paleoenvironmental Insights from Horse Eye and North Eye, UK
Supervisor: Martin Ross and John Johnston
Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Location/Method: EIT 2044 and Remote via MS TEAMS
Monday, January 16, 2025 at 2:00:00 PM
MSc Candidate: Sarah KOWALCZYK
Title: Determination of the accumulation of chiral pharmaceuticals (venlafaxine and 𝘖-desmethylvenlafaxine) in rainbow darters (𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘮)
Supervisor: Mark Servos
Department: Biology
Location/Method: B1 266
Friday, January 17, 2025 at 11:00:00 AM
MSc Candidate: Neo DIZDAR
Title: Investigating Abundances in Galaxy Clusters and Gas Motions in M87 using XRISM
Supervisor: Brian McNamara
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Location/Method: PHY 308 with Remote Audience via TEAMS
Monday, January 20, 2025 at 1:00:00 PM
MSc Candidate: Huagang TAN
Title: “AnnoTools”: Extending AnnoTree and AnnoView for Database-Wide Genome Annotation, Visualization, and Comparison
Supervisor: Andrew Doxey
Department: Biology
Location/Method: Remote via MS TEAMS
Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:00:00 AM
MSc Candidate: Vanessa KOO
Title: Health Care Costs Associated with Minor Ailments and Cost Minimization Analysis of Pharmacists Prescribing for Minor Ailments in Ontario, Canada
Supervisor: William WL Wong
Department: School of Pharmacy
Location/Method: Remote via MS TEAMS